TOPIC: Rosters & Programming

Does any one use any software?
eg for movie schedule release dates,and times the movie is screening per week, with the terms and %'s.
If so which ones?

I'm just looking for a way to make sure that I never over book on the calendar to the number of screens that I have available.

How do you go about organising your roster with availabilities and unavailabilities?

If you have any info that would be very helpful at the moment because I am looking at new ways to organise this information rated than penciling in and out on a calendar each time there is a change of release date.

Does anybody have any ideas on ways to make rostering easier eg ratios admissions to hours etc.

as far as films: I have a white board with columns for each screen reading down for each theatre so I have 5 columns for my 3 screen and 4 cols for my 2 screen because of splits and doubles, etc.

It goes by the week across so if I know I have to or will want to hold a film for 3 weeks-4 weeks-2 weeks-etc. I block out those weeks/ that helps me see if I am going to have a crash situation. Surrounding the white boards I have index cards with the films/distribs/run times/dates/ratings: btween index and white board aI git 'er done.
Michael Hurley
Impresario

It sounds like Mike's methods could also easily be accomplished with a spreadsheet using Excel- columns and rows for screens (or theaters) and titles. Each box could be as big as needed for whatever information you need- ratings, times, terms, percentages, etc. for each screen.

This also eliminates pencil writing and erasing- just retype. Then save a file for each month and you can always go back however far in the past you want and pull up the info for each movie, screen, etc. I would imagine this would be very helpful and would enable keeping stats a snap."In a place like this, the magic is all around you. The trick is to see it." -Martin Landau

"In a place like this, the magic is all around you. The trick is to see it." -Martin Landau